Photo by JoshBassettPhotography FOOD & DRINK: Pizzeria Paradiso’s Georgetown location (3282 M Street NW) is offering a 5-course, 6-beer Oskar Blues Dinner this evening, pairing dishs like butternut squash soup and braised lamb shank pizza with Oskar Blues beers. Make a reservation by emailing events
@eatyourpizza.com. 6:30 p.m. $65 all-inclusive.
MOVIE: AFI Silver Theatre (8633 Colesville Road Silver Spring, MD) is showing an Alien Retrospective this week, with tonight’s screenings including Prometheus at 6:45 p.m., Alien at 9:20 p.m., and Alien 3 at 9:40 p.m. $11.50 each film.
MUSIC: Lost in the Trees play the Black Cat (1811 14th Street NW) tonight with Midtown Dickens. 8:00 p.m. $13.
Coming up this week…
TUESDAY: After you vote for the next POTUS this Tuesday wait out the results at election watching parties across the city, including at any of the Busboys and Poets locations, Black Cat, or Bohemian Caverns with the Brightest Young Things. The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage will be hosting an Election Night Jam from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., showing election results on large screens while the Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, Jason Moran and The Bandwagon, Tad Marks, and Zan McLeod provide music. And Capitol City Brewery will be offering an all day Election Happy Hour.
FRIDAY: DC Shorts and SpeakeasyDC are teaming up to create films based on tales from local storytellers, calling the collaboration “Speakeasy Shorts“. This Friday, first at 7:00 p.m. and and then again at 9:30 p.m. at the U.S. Navy Memorial Heritage Center (701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW), seven storytellers will share “touching, funny, insightful and personal stories about their lives.” Then, the participating filmmakers in this project will have five days to write, shoot, and edit films based on these stories. The films will be screened next Friday, November 16, also at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. $20 for one of the Fridays, or $30 for both Fridays.
SATURDAY: The annual Crafty Bastards Arts and Crafts Fair is back for its 9th year, bringing over 140 vendors and their handmade soaps, infinity scarves, cyclist gifts, and other wares to Union Market (309 5th Street NE) this Saturday. 10 a.m.-7:00 p.m. $5.
